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"At least a third of all children are malnourished in this country and 132,000 children under five die every year because of avoidable diseases," says Andrew Kirkwood of Save the Children. "Aid to this country is about $3 per person per year which puts it among the lowest three countries in the world. I just think that's inexcusable."
Hardest hit are the young. Less than 50 per cent of children will complete five years of education. They also suffer from a range of diseases including Aids and tuberculosis.
Project Goals - 2009
We have completed a really exciting trip to Myanmar in March. Joining Mike and Tricia were two certified nurse mid-wives, Linda Barnes and Rosemary Bolza, who have significant experience in developing countries, plus
- Ron Serle, who has been helping with our micro-finance initiative
- Tom Cheatem, professional photographer who archived our activities
- Cynthie Tin Oo, public health expert, and her husband, Dan Fishbein, a physician with the CDC
Our project goals for this year in Myanmar are to:
- Establish a full-time, regional health care system, with a full time doctor to address basic medical needs, patient education, preventive health and train local health care workers.
- Set up a weeklong mobile health clinic specializing in women’s health, pre- and postnatal care, birth-spacing and patient education. Our medical staff will also provide training for local health care workers.
- Construct two primary schools and one regional middle school
- Establish 5 pre-schools
- Establish 5 village libraries
- Pilot micro-credit program in one village
- Construct 5 school latrines for safe sanitation
- Construct 5 village-wide water systems
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- 4 new primary schools are in operation with each school accomodating from 18 to 30 kids. 9 pre-school teachers have completed training by Save the Children Foundation.(8/17/09)
- A Fall trip to Myanmar is now planned for late Oct - early Nov. An agenda and list of participants for this trip will be completed soon (7/31/09)
- Kum Law (our resident educational expert) is now fully trained and will travel to each village one time each month to help with the curriculum. (7/3/09)
- Pig farms are going well and piglets are expected by September. (7/3/09)
- Shanta has purchased a solar refrigerator for storing vaccinations for children. This will enable much greater consistency for immunizations. (8/17/09)
- Lending Funds- Tee Lone and Lone Chin have begun collecting money for a fund that Shanta will match in the fall (7/3/09)
